Here are some interesting links from today:
- MacBook Air hacked in two minutes
Still think your trendy Mac is immune to hack attacks? Think again. According to PCWorld, the MacBook Air was hacked within two minutes by Charlie Miller who was generously rewarded with a laptop and $10,000 for his effort. Miller, who had previously expo
- Insight into YouTube videos
I remember the first time a video I posted to YouTube cracked 100 views. I wasn't so much surprised as curious: Who were these people? How did they find this video? Where did they come from? Today we're taking our first step towards answering these questi
- Companies Don’t Even Read Their Own EULAs Carefully
the EULA for Apple's newly-released version of Safari for Windows requires that "The software allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time." Obviously, most Windows users do not have an "Apple-l
Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
- Comcast, BitTorrent To Work Together On Network Traffic
Long at loggerheads, cable provider Comcast Corp. and popular file-sharing company BitTorrent Inc. now are working together. The deal comes as BitTorrent, which became known for developing software technology widely used to illegally share files, is tryin
- City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over “Health Concerns”
A small, hippie-friendly town in northern California, Sebastopol, had made an agreement with Sonic.net to provide free Wi-Fi across the downtown area. However, not everyone in town was pleased with the arrangement. According to Sebastopol Mayor Craig Litw
Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
- Bill criminalizing WiFi leeching shot down, and rightly so
If you use someone else's WiFi signal without permission, you're a thief. That's the conclusion of a bill introduced into the Maryland General Assembly last week. Sponsored by Delegate LeRoy E. Myers, Jr., the legislation would criminalize the unauthorize
- The Internet? Bah!
HYPE ALERT: WHY CYBERSPACE ISN'T, AND WILL NEVER BE, NIRVANA
- Robot reports for security duty in Atlanta
Bar owner Rufus Terrill has built what he calls the Bum Bot 2000, a remote-controlled device to chase loiterers away. Homeless advocates object.
- A Public Official Actually Shows Common Sense in Wireless ‘Piggybacking’ Debate
A state legislature has apparently introduced legislation that would make it a crime punishable by up to three years in jail to "steal" a neighbor's open wireless connection (found via Slashdot). The legislator claims that his goal in passing this legisla
- Dell Response – SSD Failure Rates Fails to Include the Facts
Sometimes we have to react to information that has no basis in reality. That's what we're dealing with here. A recent analyst document from Avian Securities incorrectly stated that Dell is seeing high return rates (20 – 30%) due to performance issues and
- Doctors Remove Wrong Kidney
A surgical team at Park Nicollet Heath Services in Minnesota removed the healthy kidney from a patient last week, and left behind the possibly cancerous kidney. We were going to make a dumb joke about this is why you should draw a giant X over your good b
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Apple offering credit for strike-shortened seasons
The Hollywood writers' strike might have shortened the television season, but iTunes customers will get some compensation for their losses. iLounge noticed that Apple has started sending notices to iTunes Store season pass subscribers with good news: they
- Consumer Goods Giants Embrace Mobile Coupons
Mobile coupons have found powerful allies in the form of consumer goods giants Procter & Gamble, Clorox, Del Monte, General Mills and Kimberly-Clark and retailer Kroger. According to Advertising Age, this is the biggest test of mobile coupons to date.
- Cell phone as boarding pass
In the future, air travelers across the country will be able to get their boarding passes sent to their cell phones. Continental is testing a new system that allows people checking in via their cell phone to get their boarding pass sent directly to their
- 20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?
The whole reason to pay the obscene premium for a SSD is because it's supposed to be way more reliable than your average spinny hard drive. According to an analyst at Avian Securities, however, an unnamed "large computer manufacturer" is having 10 to 20 p
- Recycle Electronics for Free by Mail
Recycle your old electronics for free with the US Postal Service's new "Mail Back" program. The program, which allows you to discard your used electronics in an environmentally friendly manner, provides free envelopes in 1,500 post offices to handle every
- Facebook Press Event: Our (Almost) Live Notes
Facebook held a fairly large press event today around privacy and other new products at 10am PT at their Palo Alto headquarters. There were a number of announcements made, although live blogging of the event was not permitted. These are my raw notes from
- Kids More Interested In Cyberspace And MySpace Than Outerspace?
Apparently, NASA is getting worried that the kids these days aren't interested in outer space, preferring to do their "travels" through cyberspace. That seems like a somewhat odd conclusion, as there doesn't seem to be anything mutually exclusive about th
- Chuck Becomes a Comic Strip
Chuck fans who can't get enough of the computer nerd and his antics can start flipping the pages of his adventures this June. The NBC show's comic-book version will follow the unlikely hero in a series of worldwide travels, mishaps, near-death cliff-hange
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Video Coming To Flickr Soon. Really.
rumors are flying that Yahoo intends to integrate video into Flickr very soon, perhaps in the next three weeks. Part of the delay may have been a long internal debate about how to make Flickr Video special and distinct from what YouTube already offers. Th
- How to Stay Healthy While Sitting At Your Desk All Day
Americans spend nearly eight hours a day sitting (and another four hours watching TV and playing computer games) according to a Harris poll conducted by the America On the Move Foundation. Now consider your own day. How many hours per day do you spend sit
